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Re: Shaq Gets Owned Like a Chump After Cruelly Mocking a Man for the Way He Looks

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Originally Posted by ccured

the NBA has to act. Shaq must be removed from NBA tv

If the NBA has a contract that includes language stipulating that NBAtv employees not act in a way that is detrimental to the league, and also the NBA determines Shaq's actions are detrimental to the league, then maybe they will...

Re: Shaq Gets Owned Like a Chump After Cruelly Mocking a Man for the Way He Looks

Yeah its one thing to make fun of someone for being an idiot, its another to make fun of someone's physical appearance that they can't help. If Shaq walked a day in this man's shoes, he'd change his tune really quick.

Re: Shaq Gets Owned Like a Chump After Cruelly Mocking a Man for the Way He Looks

Poor guy. Lost a lot of respect for those celebrities after that video. I know they apologized and everything, but they should've never done it in the first place. Hope he gets his message out there and his anti-bullying thing takes off.

Stories like this hit a little close to home. Always tried to help out with the F-Troop and T-Warriors at my high school as much as I could. Those were the two "special" classes for those with mental and developmental challenges, and all of the students in those classes were absolutely amazing. Plus, my oldest sister works at the Tribble Center, a center for adults with the same disabilities, in Seneca as a workshop director. She helps a group of both mentally and developmentally challenged people ranging from roughly 30-60 years old. Typical daily "routine" activities (cleaning, getting ready, etc), projects to help with motor and communication skills, and things of that sort. Her people mostly have "moderate" disabilities. Slight step above "mild", but not "severe".

If I get some free time during the late morning or early afternoon, I try to swing by and visit with them. She always tells me that they normally enjoy anybody they meet, but anybody big or tall... they absolutely adore them. I'm 6'4 and a touch over 300, I'm lucky enough that they absolutely love me when I visit. And I have to say... nothing will melt your heart faster than one of the shyest people there smiling and reaching out for a hug as soon as they see you... because you know they truly mean it.